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Simultaneous Electroencephalography and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Human Auditory System

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The combination of recordings of electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has become a widely accepted tool in human neuroscience to combine the high spatial resolution of fMRI recordings with the precise temporal resolution of EEG recordings. Recording EEG in a running MRI scanner is technically challenging and involves the correction of multiple additional artifacts. This problem seems solved by user-friendly solutions for the correction of MRI-related artifacts in EEG data which are now available. The scanner noise, however, still poses a major unsolved problem, since it can obviously interfere with auditory experiments. We discuss the technical advances in the combination of EEG with fMRI as well as some recent experiments using the combined techniques in the auditory domain.

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  1. Experimental Psychology Lab, Department of Psychology, European Medical School, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany

    Johannes Vosskuhl & Christoph S. Herrmann

  2. Research Center Neurosensory Science, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

    Christoph S. Herrmann

  3. Center for Behavioural Brain Science, Magdeburg, Germany

    André Brechmann & Henning Scheich

  4. Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

    André Brechmann & Henning Scheich

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Vosskuhl, J., Herrmann, C.S., Brechmann, A., Scheich, H. (2022). Simultaneous Electroencephalography and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Human Auditory System. In: Mulert, C., Lemieux, L. (eds) EEG - fMRI. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07121-8_22

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